Eric Lynch, Managing Director of Scharf Investments, says that Wall Street’s seesaw reaction to a speech by U.S. Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell on Thursday was “a microcosm of the year”, with the stock market “stumbling around” as it tries to figure out the Fed’s next moves on interest rates. Lisa Bernhard has more.

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